Cricket 1902

300 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u ly 2 4 , 1902, THE AUSTRALIANS. THE SURREY MATCH. TWENTY-THIRD OF THE TOUR. Played at the Oval on July 21, 22, and 23. Drawn. A s the Surrey eleven seem ed to have got back into excellent form again, there was a prospect that a good fight m ight be m ade in the return m atch against the Australians. There was also m ore than a reasonable chance that there w ould be fine weather, w hich w ould be exceedingly welcom e to Surrey people, w ho have had precious little opportunity this season o f seeing cricket in com fort at the Oval. But on Sunday arctic weather put in an appearance, and w hen the game began on M onday a great coat was a useful thing for a spectator to have about him. There w ould certainly have teen a vast crow d if there had been any chance o f a warm day, but under the circumstances it was a little surprising that about seven thousand people turned up in the hopes o f seeing som e interesting cricket. They were not disappointed, fo r on a w icket which was som ewhat slow the Surrey m en played a highly satisfactory gam e, although perhaps it wanted a little more brightness. B ut the m ain thing was that none of the batsm en seemed in m ortal terror o f the A u s­ tralians, and m any o f them were therefore able to show w hat they could do. A pretty good comm ence­ m ent was m ade by A bel and H ayward, but just as the latter seem ed about to m ake him self perfectly at hom e for hours he was w ell taken at point w ith the total at 45. This was a disappointm ent, but Hayes cam e in and played a sound gam e while A b el went steidiiy on in his old-fashioned w ay alm ost as com ­ fortably as if he were playing against the m ost ordinary bow ling in the w orld. O f course he showed no undue haste, and it was nearly two hours before he saw his fifty go up on the board. N or did he hurry him self between fifty and a hundred, but he always played with great confidence and was seldom beaten in the pace of the ball. H is score was 49 out o f 122 at lunch tim e, w hen there was only one w icket down. It was not until the total was 219 that he was dismissed for a fine 1°4, after tatting for about three hour* and a quarter. M eanwhile Hayes had helped him to put on 85 for the second w icket in an hour and ten m inutes, L ockw ood plodded along patiently for thirty-five m inutes for 16. and Brockwell was nearly an hour and-a-half in m aking his 39, thus show ing how excellent w as the bowling. W hen half the wickets were down the total was 241, but before stumps were drawn three m ore had fallen for an additional 53 runs, Leveson-G ow er being not out w ith a very good 25. So far so good. B ut on T ues­ day the weather was so wretched that there was no play until late in the afternoon, when the Surrey innings was brought to an abrupt conclusion for only two m ore runs. Trum per and D uff, who opened the Australian inniDgs, very quickly became accustom ed to the bow ling against them and scored with freedom all round the wicket. It was chiefly through Trum per that at the end of an hour the total was 120. W ith 142 on the board the first w icket fell, D uff being caught off L ockw ood, w ho was not tried until the total had reached 123. S ix runs later Trum per’s fine innings was term inated by a catch at the wicket. D uring the eighty-five m inutes he batted he made ten 4’s, six 3’s and six 2’s, w ithout giving a chance. Yesterday, thanks to H ill, w ho m ade 90, the Austra­ lians succeeded in passing the Surrey score, and when their innings was over it was realised that a draw was inevitable. W hen the county went in the second tim e, runs proved very hard to get, and, w ith the exception o f H ayward, w ho m ade 48, nobody faced the bow ling w ith any confidence. Saunders was in great form with the ball, as his record o f six wickets fo r nine runs testifies. H e obtained his last four wickets w ithout a run being m ade from him , and his analysis was an extra­ ordinary one againtt so strong a batting side as Surrey. The Australians had a few m inutes batting at the end o f the day, and lost one wicket fo r 11 runs. S urrey . First innings. A bel, c N oble, b Trum per. .104 H ayward, c N oble, b Saun­ ders ......................................26 H ayes, lbw, b A rm strong... 37 A ustralians . L ockw ood, c Arm strong, b H o w e ll.....................................16 Brockw ell, b H o w e ll............39 H .G .Leveson-G ow er,rot out 26 D . L . A . Jephson, b H ow ell .0 Lees.c Trum per, b Saunders 6 C lode, b Saunders ............ 9 Stedm an, c A rm strong, b H ow ell...................................... 6 Richardson, b H ow ell............ 2 B 22, lb 2, nb 1............26 Total ...................296 Y . Trum per, c Sted­ man. b Lockw ood ... 85 R . A . D uff, c Abel, b L ockw ood....................57 H . Carter, c Hayes, b C lo d e .............................. 0 W . W . Arm strong, c Richardson,b B rock­ w ell ............................. 21 C. H ill, lbw , b Clode... 90 M . A .N oble,lbw ,bLees 0 S. E . Gregory,cHayes, b Lees ..................... J. Darling, b Richard­ son .............................. A.H opkins,cLeveson- Gower, b Clode ... W . P . H ow ell, not out J. V . Saunders, c L - Gower, b Clode ... Byes ..................... T otal ............313 Second i n n i n g s W . W . Arm strong, not out, 1 ; W . P . H ow ell, c L.-G ow er, b Clode 2 ; J . V . Saunders, not out, 8.—T otal (one w icket), 11. S urrey . First innings. Second innings. O. M . R . W . O. M . R . W . H ow ell ... Saunders A rm strong Trum per... H op k in s... N oble . 28 34 . 34 . 14 . 5 6 7 80 10 8? 13 49 2 16 ... 11 ... 9-1 ... 11 34 ... 12 4 32 1 N oble delivere 1 a no-ball. A u stra lia n s. First innings. Second innings. O. M .R . W . O. M .R . W . Clode ............ 16 2 65 4 ............ 3 1 5 1 L e e s.................... 20 1 93 2 ............ Brockw ell ... 12 0 56 1... ... Richardson ... 12 0 65 1 ............ 3 1 6 0 L ockw ood ... 4 0 18 2 ............ ESSEX LEICESTERSHIRE. Played at Leicester on July 21, 22 and 23. Abandoned. The Essex team was seen to very great adyantage on M onday, their batting being attractive all through the innings, which was played on a slow and steadily drying wicket. Perrin distinguished him self greatly, and played his highest innings o f the season, his 121 being put together in just over three hours. W hen he was within twelve runs o f his hundred he hit three balls to the boundary iti succession. In part­ nership w ith M cGahey he helped to put on 123 runs in an hour and a h alf. Both men played very fine cricket indeed. M cGahey also m ade three boundary hits w hen he wanted tw elve runs to m ake his fifty. Towards the end o f the innings Sewell and Russell gave the Leicestershire bowlers no m ercy, and by the m ost resolute hitting scored 97 runs together in a little over three quarters of an hour. Altogether the entire innings of 376 lasted for four hours and fifty m inutes. In a bad light Leicestershire w ent in at six o’clock, but when 11 runs had been m ade without loss in a quarter of an hour stumps were drawn. It was not possible to begin play on Tuesday until three o’clock, ow ing to rain, and then on a w et and easy w icket, Leicestershire brought their score to 63 for tw o wickets, w hen rain came down again and stopped the gam e fo r half an hour. Afterw ards W hitehead and K ing played well, but at five o ’clock rain again fell, and there was no m ore play. N or was it possible to continue the gam e yesterday, and the m atch was abandoned at twelve o’clock. E ssex . Second innings, c and b H ow ell... 5 c H ill, b A rm ­ strong ... ... 48 c Arm strong, b N oble ............22 c D a r l i n g , b Saunders............18 st Carter, b Arm ­ strong ............ 6 c N oble, b Saun­ ders ..................... 0 c Arm strong, b Saunders........... 7 cD uff,b Saunders 0 cD uff,b Saunders 3 not o u t ................... 0 cD uff,b Saunders 0 B 1, nb 1 ... 2 Total .........Ill A . P. Lucas, c M ac­ donald, b Crawford 26 F. L . Fane, b Odell ... 8 P. Perrin, b Crawford 121 C. M cGahey, c K ing, b C ra w fo rd ....................54 C. J.K ortright,cW hite- head, b O d e ll............ 0 G. Tossetti, c W hite­ head, b C lark e...........21 Buckenham , bW hite- h ea d............................. 24 Sewell, b K in g ............54 Russell, not o u t ...........53 Reeves, c W hiteside, b Clarke .. ............ 2 M ead, c O dell, b K ing 0 B 5 ,lb 2 , w 5 ,n b l 13 Total ..376 L eicestershibe . C. J. B. W ood, cB u ck- enham , b M ead ... 22 W hitehead, c Lucas, b Reeves .................... 55 K night, c Russell, b Reeves ..................... 9 Bang, not out ............36 R . M acdonald,not out 6 W id e ..................... 1 T otal (3wkts)129 SUSSEX v. WORCESTERSHIRE. 2 Played at Worcester on July 21, 22 and 23. Drawn. W ithout R anjitsinhji and C. B. F ry, the Sussex eleven was som ething like the play o f “ Othello ” w ith the principal character o f Desdem ona left out. W ith the exception of Brann and Newham , the eleven consisted entirely o f professionals. Neverthe­ less, at the end o f the first day’s play, Sussex had the best o f matters, for against a total of 170 they had scored 146 for six wickets, Newham being not out 26. There were only tw o innings of over fifty during the day, one by Gaukrodger, w ho follow ed up his fine perform ance against the Australians by another excel­ lent innings, and the other by Relf, w ho w ith V ine as a partner put up 88 for the first Sussex w icket in about an hour. On Tuesday there was a good deal of rain, and the Sussex m en could only head their opponents’ score by 15, Newham and Tate doing best. Yesterday H . K . Foster and Bow ley played fine cricket, and put up 85 before they were parted, Foster m aking nearly all the runs. H e and Bowley were run out within a few m inutes o f each other. A fter­ wards R. E. Foster played a good innings, and W orcestershire were able to declare. W orcestershire . First innings. Second innings Bowley, b Tate ..................... 11 run out ............ 29 W heldon, c Cox, b Tate ... 21 not o u t ..................... 18 A rnold, c Butt, b Cox 9 c Vine, b K illick 12 R . E . Foster, cK illick, bC ox 16 not ou t.................... 46 H. K . Foster, b Cox ............ 20 run ou t..................... 75 W . W . Lowe, c Keif, b Cox 0 c Vine, b Cox ... 9 Gaukrodger, not o u t ............ 58 c Tate, b C ox ... 2 N icholls, b T a t e ..................... 7 Bird, c R elf, b Tate ............ 4 Burrows, b Cox ..................... 15 W ilson, b C ox ..................... 1 B 7 ,lb 1 ..................... 8 Extras ... 3 Total .....................170 T otal... *195 * Innings declared closed. S ussex . First innings. Second innings. R elf, c R . Foster, b W ilson 59 c H .Foster,b Bird 7 V ine, b W ilson ....30 not out........................................18 K illick, b W ilso n ................... 5 cW h eldon ,b Bur­ row s.....................44 M arlow , lbw, b W ilson ... 0 not ou t.......................... 5 W . Newham, c H . Foster, b W ilson ................................. 30 G. Brann, b B urrow s...............13 Cox, b W ilson ...................... 0 Tate, c R . Foster, b A rnold 33 Butt, b W ilson ....................... 1 Bean, not out ...................... 3 Cordingley, c Gaukrodger, b Arnold ................... ... 1 B 8, nb 2 ........................10 E x tra s........... 8 Total ......................185 T otal (2 wkts) 82 W orcestershire . First innings. Second innings* O. M . R . W . O. M . R . W* T ate..................... 25 7 60 4 ............... 16 2 65 0 C o x ..................... 84-1 13 73 6 ............... 20 4 61 2 Vine..................... 10 1 29 0 ............... K illick ... 11 2 43 1 Bean ............. 2 0 6 0 C ordingley.. 4 0 16 0 K illick bow led three no-balls. R . T . Crawford, C. E .D e Trafford, Clarke, Geeson, W . W . Odell and W hiteside did not bat. E ssex . O. M . R . W . O. M . R . W . Odell ... 32 4 85 2 I K ing ... 18 4 6 71 2 Clarke ... 19 7 70 2 |Geeson 14 1 43 0 Craw ford 20 6 65 3 |W hitehd 11 4 29 1 Geeson delivered four wides and Crawford one wide and one no-ball, L eicestershire . O. M . R . W . O. M . R . W . Buckenham 4 2 7 0 1R eeves... 14 5 40 2 M cG ahey... 11 2 32 0 T osetti... 4 0 11 0 M ead............ 17 7 38 1 I M ead delivered a wide. W ilson ... A rnold ... B urrow s... B ird ............ Lowe S ussex . First innings. O . M . R . W . ... 23 .. 165 ... 8 ... 8 .. 2 4 63 7 . 4 51 2 . 1 37 1 0 18 0 . 0 6 0 Second innings. O . M .R .W . ... 5 0 20 0 ... 5 2 14 1 ... 6 0 28 1 . . . 8 4 6 0 N icholls 4 2 6 0 Arnold delivered five no-balls. YORKSHIRE v. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Played at Leeds on July 21, 22 and 23. Yorkshire won by an innings and 91 rnns. N othing goes w ell w ith Gloucestershire just now. Against Yorkshire they had to take the field without Troup, Sewell, Brown and Paish, and w hen they lost the toss Langdon had to retire after a few minutes play, while Manners did not arrive on the ground all day, so that tw o substitutes had to be obtained. The Yorkshirem en did w ell on a w ickct w hich ought to have helped the bowlers, but the fielding was by no m eans good, while, with the exception o f Spry, the bowlers did not distinguish themselves. Spry, however, had a verv fine analysis. The most attractive cricket o f the day was seen during the partnership o f H irst and T . L . Taylor, which pro­ duced 112 runs in a little m ore than an hour. Taylor’s first three runs took him three quarters of